hehe they will accuse anyone to hide their scam...
LET THEM ARGUE WITH THESE FACTS
1. The block reward was 500 every couple seconds at launch! Not 20 or 50 coins every 2.5 minutes as listed. There was also no windows wallet so only linux users could mine. This allowed about 1.7-2 million Darkcoins to be instamined in the first 24hours. Representing about 50% OF ALL DARKCOINS CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE!!! All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets. Then the rules were changed increasing the block time to 2.5 minutes and eliminating the 500 block reward, (but only after the instaminers had claimed 2 million or so coins first.)
You have a serious understanding problem, 500 XCO per block was part of the specifications
Currently the reward formula is controlled by 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2), but originally was controlled by (1111 / (diff+1 ^ 2)) with a maximum cap of 500, so the reward was 500 until diff got to 0.49+ (do your math) as per coin specifications.
int64 static GetBlockValue(int nBits, int64 nFees)
{
double dDiff =
(double)0x0000ffff / (double)(nBits & 0x00ffffff);
int64 nSubsidy = (1111 / (pow((dDiff+1),2)));
if (nSubsidy > 500) nSubsidy = 500;
if (nSubsidy < 1) nSubsidy = 1;
nSubsidy *= COIN;
return nSubsidy + nFees;
}
And if you follow the thread, some weeks after launch, once diff was always high, seeing that the coin was getting popular and with that formula the reward was going to be misery amount soon, dev updated the reward formula to something that would deliver a more fair amount of coins even a lot of new miners join, that's when 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2) was added (and finally replaced the old one because diff wasn't going to be low enough anymore), just to make it more fair!
There was a problem with difficulty adjustment, this is something that many coins have at launch, diff wasn't adjusting quick enough, and where most devs just ignore the problem, he pushed an update to fix it.
And "All mined in the first 24hours by just a few wallets", go check the block chain, there were more than 1k wallets mining the coin at launch.
I won't deny the first 24 hours produced an important percentage of the total coins (about 2% when cap was 84M and about 9% with the cap at 22M), no one is trying to deny this, but call this scam? This was always public knowledge, not intended and no one lied about it, so everyone who invested or is investing (money or mining) knew and knows this, read the first 10 pages of the thread, it's all there.
Now go and read the first 10 pages of the thread, then read the rest of the thread, and then go find any other coin with a dev dedicating 1/10th of the time DRK's dev is dedicating to deliver more and more features and trying to make it as fair as possible, and then come back and reply.
Please, leave facts when you reply, because we all know you will reply, I'm just hoping this time is something different.
Btw, you are still in time to buy some coins, so please, do it, I'll be happy for you once you see profit in a couple of months.